Genesis 44:18-34

18Then Judah stepped up to him and said, O my lord, let your servant please speak a word in my lords ears, and do not be angry with your servant; for you are like Pharaoh himself.
19My lord asked his servants, saying, Have you a father or a brother?
20And we said to my lord, We have a father, an old man, and a young brother, the child of his old age. His brother is dead; he alone is left of his mothers children, and his father loves him.
21Then you said to your servants, Bring him down to me, so that I may set my eyes on him.
22We said to my lord, The boy cannot leave his father, for if he should leave his father, his father would die.
23Then you said to your servants, Unless your youngest brother comes down with you, you shall see my face no more.
24When we went back to your servant my father we told him the words of my lord.
25And when our father said, Go again, buy us a little food,
26we said, We cannot go down. Only if our youngest brother goes with us, will we go down; for we cannot see the mans face unless our youngest brother is with us.
27Then your servant my father said to us, You know that my wife bore me two sons;
28one left me, and I said, Surely he has been torn to pieces; and I have never seen him since.
29If you take this one also from me, and harm comes to him, you will bring down my gray hairs in sorrow to Sheol.
30Now therefore, when I come to your servant my father and the boy is not with us, then, as his life is bound up in the boys life,
31when he sees that the boy is not with us, he will die; and your servants will bring down the gray hairs of your servant our father with sorrow to Sheol.
32For your servant became surety for the boy to my father, saying, If I do not bring him back to you, then I will bear the blame in the sight of my father all my life.
33Now therefore, please let your servant remain as a slave to my lord in place of the boy; and let the boy go back with his brothers.
34For how can I go back to my father if the boy is not with me? I fear to see the suffering that would come upon my father.

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